Comments on: Starting Gate: Feeling The Pain

[tpraskac]

McCain for the Rich Obama for the Middle class. Which do you want elected

[mainedoggie]

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Anyone who believes in polls are just as naive as Obam thinking he has what it takes to lead a country--LMAO!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by john43218
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You''ll be crying like a little whining baby when McCain passes away though, won''t you.

[walt1944-2009]

1929 - Herbert Hoover (Republican) President - Black Friday, Wall Street crashes, banks close, companies close down, millions out of work, dollar worthless, thousands of home foreclosures, government clueless but rich live well.

1991 - George HW Bush (Republican) President - economy in toilet, dollar almost worthless, companies close down, thousands out of work, highest inflation since 1968-70, Bush ignores whole thing, rich live well!

2001, 2008 - George W Bush (Republican) President - 9/11, Black Monday, Wall Street meltdowns, Corporate greed out of control, prices out of control, jobs outsourced, tens of thousands out of work, dollar worthless, people''s IRA''s VANISH, middle class almost extinct, huge deficits, Bush ignores cries of citizens but rescues Corporate America, RICH LIVE WELL!!!

Do I see a pattern here???????

SIG HEIL, BUSH!!!!
sig heil, WE''RE ALL WHINERS, McCain!!!!
sig heil, I CAN SEE RUSSIA FROM MY HOUSE, Palin!!!!!

[john43218]

Republicans confronted Barack Obama of inflating his record after he claimed Tuesday to have proposed the foundation for the $150 billion economic stimulus package passed by Congress early this year.


A New York Times report from Jan. 12 noted that Hillary Clinton was actually the first candidate to offer a short-term stimulus proposal, including $70 billion for housing and other aid and $40 billion in potential tax rebates.
Obama%u2019s plan focused more on tax rebates for working families, and in that respect was more similar to the final package passed by Congress.
The Obama campaign reasoned, in a statement published by ABC News, that the bill that passed in February %u201Cwas centered on rebate checks to the broad middle class along the lines of what Obama proposed.%u201D
But a Washington Post story from Jan. 23 suggested that leading Democratic candidates were kept out of the stimulus negotiations altogether.

[afmca]

john43218 - the trouble with stats is they can be interpreted so many different ways. I would beat that many think of McCain in terms of 2000. I even respected him and proabbaly would have voted for him in 2000. He is but a shell of that man in 2008 and that is what Obama and the Democratic party needs to show the America voter.

McCain''s promise of being a change agent is a marketer''s spiel not reality. That is all he and Palin say on the campaign .. all style no substance! He has been totally co-opted by the Repub ecomomic team, the neo-cons on the war and the pseudo-christians on morality. As he eventually did in Vietnam; he cracked under the pressure and sold his soul to become President. He has become more like them and less the maverick he claims to be. He will be 4 more years or Bush becuase that is what he had to promise to get support.

Palin is just a bone thrown to the Prophets for Profits to get their lemmings to the polls. That is why we hold elections and not polls to elect our politicians.

[afmca]

ApacheX - which Republican propaganda location are you responding from? This is your typical Repub response to everything.. has anyone noticed Repubs are NEVER responsible for anything? They are not accountable and not responsible just like their CEO buddies. They will blame Clinton, Pelosi, Obama, and even go back to Carter; but never to the person that actually occupies the office.

To remove the smell from ApacheX''s message. Things don''t just fall apart immediately. The executive decisions from Bush and Cheney, the new policies put in place for regulators hand picked by their industries, and a Repub Congress that were worse than lap dogs created the mess we are in today.

Don''t believe the lies !!!!

[afmca]

McCain doesn''t have a clue .. the Republicans don''t have a clue. Remember their concern in this economy is for the CEO and the large investors; not middle class America. They, along with the corporate buddies, duped Americans into entering the stock market only to use the funds to produce worthless mergers and give themselves large bonuses for non-performance. Even now the failed CEOs are leaving with large exit bonuses; while the workers hit the street with nothing. That is Republican compassion.

Worker pay increases are miniscule, hours ever increasing, work load increasing, increased benefit cost shrink pay even more, and you can''t leave because there is no place to go!

A new Democratic administration has to crack down on these Wall Street thieves and stop these endless mergers that produce nothing of value to the market or the consumers.

Remember folks Republicans held all the reigns of power for 6 years and for the last two had effective veto power ... they are the party that needs to pay the price. I would be saying the same if the Democrats had performed so atrociously.

[apachelx]

George Bush has been in office for 7 1/2 years. The first six the economy
was fine.

About the time when Obama was elected to the US Senate two years ago:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 yr. high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) the unemployment rate was 4.5%;
4) the DOW JONES hit a record high--14,000 +
5) Americans were buying new cars, taking cruises, vacationing
overseas, living large!...

But Americans wanted ''CHANGE''! So, in 2006 they voted in a Democratic
Congress & yep--we got ''CHANGE'' all right!.....
1) Consumer confidence has plummeted;
2) Gasoline is now nearly $4 gallon and climbing;
3) Unemployment is up over 5%.
4) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $12 TRILLION
DOLLARS & prices are still dropping;
5) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure; and
6) THE DOW is probing another low~~11,300--$2.5 TRILLION DOLLARS
HAS EVAPORATED FROM THEIR STOCKS, BONDS & MUTUAL FUNDS INVESTMENT
PORTFOLIOS!

YEP , IN 2006 AMERICA VOTED FOR CHANGE!...AND WE SURE GOT IT!!!....

NOW THE POLLS SAY OBAMA IS GONNA BE ''THE MAN''--CLAIMS HE''S GONNA REALLY
GIVE US CHANGE!!....

JUST HOW MUCH MORE ''CHANGE'' DO YA THINK WE CAN STAND???.....

[screan_name]

I think McCain really feels Americans pain.

He''s so busy worrying about the struggles of every day Americans that he forgets how many mansions he owns(it''s 9).

He surrounds himself with smart people who care about our struggles too. Why just the other day his economic advisor said, "Americans are a bunch of whiners", when they talk about the hard times they are experiencing.